Patents

Waymo v. Uber—the recent battle royale over the future of self-driving car technology—ended in a settlement between the parties, but an important legal question remains decidedly unsettled. In the words of Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over the case: “Is an engineer really supposed to get a frontal lobotomy before they go to the next job?”

Willful infringement and enhanced damages claim denied where defendants willful blindness to its products possible infringement of plaintiffs patents was at most a substitute for knowledge and did not constitute sufficient egregious behavior to support enhanced damages.

Lawyers for Arista, led by Tensegrity's Matthew Powers, are the latest to attack assignor estoppel, the equitable doctrine that forbids an inventor who sells his or her patent from then turning around and attacking the patent's validity.

The awards that have the new deadline of Feb. 26 will recognize excellence at midsize and small firms in a host of categories. But lawyers from any-sized organization will be considered for Attorney of the Year, On the Rise and Lifetime Achievement.

The raw statistics of affirmed Section 101 rejections may make appealing a Section 101 rejection seem like somewhat of a hopeless endeavor. But in reality, the chances of successful a Section 101 appeal can be significantly increased with the right preparation

Andrei Iancu, the new unanimously confirmed director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, has drawn a warm welcome from groups representing patent owners and accused infringers. Plus, updates on WesternGeco, the Uber-Waymo trial and Merck's $200 million Federal Circuit appeal.

The “digital transformation” of legal services involves the application of technology-enabled efficiencies, process optimization and appropriate resource mix to the delivery of legal services to maximize client value, both in terms of costs and business impact.

Patent term computer network included both multiple physical computers and multiple processes executing on a single computer, where intrinsic evidence demonstrated dependent claims which described computer network as involving processes on a single computer.

Motion for judgment on the pleadings in patent infringement case denied where there was a factual dispute over prosecution history and over scope of equivalents to determine whether prosecution history estoppel barred infringement by doctrine of equivalents.

Plaintiff was barred by prosecution history estoppel from asserting infringement under doctrine of equivalents where limitation amended to claim was added specifically in response to reject to distinguish claim from prior art.

Patent claims not indefinite where functional language tied to the capabilities of a device, rather than describing functional steps in isolation, such that a POSA would understand that infringement would occur from use of an infringing device.

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